How to Install and Uninstall tesseract-ocr-sin Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: September 20,2024

1. Install "tesseract-ocr-sin" package

This tutorial shows how to install tesseract-ocr-sin on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                tesseract-ocr-sin
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "tesseract-ocr-sin" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall tesseract-ocr-sin on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                tesseract-ocr-sin
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the tesseract-ocr-sin package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: tesseract-ocr-sin
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 6668
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Architecture: all
Version: 3.04.00-1
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data (<< 2)
Breaks: tesseract-ocr (<< 3.04.00-1)
Filename: pool/universe/t/tesseract-ocr-sin/tesseract-ocr-sin_3.04.00-1_all.deb
Size: 2076836
MD5sum: 024bf9bedb3a1f246c677e585cfbe4bc
SHA1: ad9da72936e1e69d0c4f927c71d214795959f2ea
SHA256: d61042c5de40ab9af163101fd404c83906ce03c9bb734c162cddb0f00f837a38
Description-en: tesseract-ocr language files for Sinhala
A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985
and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It
was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005. This package contains the data
needed for processing images in a particular language.
Description-md5: c714e110ba286c6ad0f7c988ea37c7da
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu